betty is on our line for democrats, calling fromia zoo city, -- yazoo city, mississippi. >> hi, good morning. yesterday i watched romney's speech in iowa, economic speech. one of the things that caught my attention was he started complaining about obama and spending and stimulus. but ironically he was given his economic speech at a company that had received his funds. evidently romney needs to do his homework. one more thing, he complain ud 23 million americans out of work, 23 million americans out of work. but when he was at bane capital and caused those plants to close down and shipped the jobs overseas, he's part of the 23 million americans out of work. >> gideon moore, talk to us more about the economic situation in north carolina, and what, if any, stimulus money came through the state and if it's going to have any sort of effect on the election. >> the job situation in north carolina isn't great. it's 9.7% unemployment both here in mecklenberg county and the state in general. i believe we're 47th nationally. frankly, it's not what we're used to. this is a state that's normally